Every Apple Watch price Apple has published for this launch fits in three figures: From $249 for SE 3, From $399 for Series 12 and From $799 for Ultra 4. There is no fourth number, and no per-configuration list anywhere on Apple’s site. Ceramic returns on Series 12 in pearl white and night blue, at…
Apple Watch Readiness Arrives Monday, and the Health App That Summarizes It Has No Date
Readiness reaches Apple Watch on Monday, September 14, when watchOS 27 ships free. The place Apple has designed to summarize it, the redesigned Health app on iPhone, is dated only later this year, in US English, on devices that support Apple Intelligence. The Readiness score arrives with watchOS 27 on September 14. Image: Apple So…
Apple Names the Readiness App on Two Apple Watch Pages and Leaves It Off the watchOS 27 List
Apple lists a new Readiness app on exactly two pages: the one for Apple Watch Series 12 and the one for Apple Watch Ultra 4. It is not in the watchOS 27 feature list Apple publishes, and Apple has said nothing about whether Series 11, Ultra 3 or Apple Watch SE 3 get it. The…
iPhone Duo Camera Specs Apple Has Not Published: ProRes, Sensor Size and Seven More
Apple has published an unusually detailed camera list for the iPhone Duo, down to focal lengths, apertures and slow-motion frame rates. Nine specifications that appear on the iPhone 18 Pro’s pages, or that buyers routinely ask about, are absent from it. The 48MP Fusion main camera. Apple publishes no sensor or pixel size for it.…
iPhone Duo's Camera Control Button: Siri Camera Mode, and Five Things Apple Left Out
Apple’s iPhone Duo press release contains one sentence about the phone’s shutter hardware: there is a Camera Control button, and it has a Siri Camera mode. That is the whole of what Apple has published about it, and everything else a buyer would want to know about the button is missing. The 48MP Fusion main…
iPhone Duo's 48MP Ultra Wide: 13 mm, f/2.2, 120 Degrees and 48MP Macro
The iPhone Duo’s second rear lens is a 48MP Ultra Wide at 13 mm and f/2.2 with a 120-degree field of view, and Apple says it matches the iPhone 18 Pro’s Ultra Wide. Apple’s specs also credit it with 48MP macro, which makes it the only camera on the phone that shoots both the widest…
iPhone Duo's 2x Telephoto Is a Crop, Not a Lens: Four Cameras, Two Rear Lenses
The iPhone Duo’s 2x telephoto is not a lens. It is a 12MP crop taken from the center of the 48MP main sensor at 52 mm, and it keeps the main camera’s f/1.6 aperture because it is looking through the same glass. Apple’s own wording is that the 48MP Fusion main camera has an integrated…
iPhone 18 Pro Pricing Is a Grid: The Same 1:2:3 Storage Ladder in All 10 Priced Markets
Apple has priced iPhone 18 Pro in ten markets so far, and the storage ladder is the same shape in every one of them. In each currency the step to 512GB, the step to 1TB and the step to 2TB sit in a fixed 1:2:3 pattern, and the Pro Max premium is a flat amount…
iPhone 18 Pro Storage Costs the Same as iPhone Air and iPhone Duo Storage: $200, $400, $600
Storage costs the same on every new iPhone Apple sells. Moving from 256GB to 512GB is $200 on iPhone 18 Pro, on iPhone 18 Pro Max, on iPhone Air and on iPhone Duo, the step to 1TB is $400 on all of them, and the step to 2TB is $600 wherever it is offered. iPhone…
iPhone 18 Pro Storage by the Gigabyte: The 2TB Step Is the Cheapest of the Three
iPhone 18 Pro comes in four capacities at $1,199, $1,399, $1,799 and $2,399, and the three steps between them cost $200, $400 and $600. Priced by the gigabytes each step actually adds, the first two steps cost the same and the 2TB step is the cheapest of the three, at roughly 59 cents a gigabyte…